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2.

would be followed as to provisions

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board.

In regard to expenses incurred

my

recent voy a ge

voyage

I have to

observe that I slept on board

the "Reynard" 27 nights; or reckoning inclusively days of

embarkation and debarkation,

I was altogether 33 days on board;- that she carried a large quantity of stores to 4. M. brig

"Pilot" at Thanghac,

and

was moreover

ordered to touch at Loo Choo in

conformity with a despatch just received from the Foreign Office;- that in order to spare

all m unnecessary inconvenience and expense, Itook no chaplain with the only two Chinese on board

me-

connected with me,

mrice supplied by

στι

fed principally

me

—

and

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the commander and myself elept,

dressed and ate in one and the

fame cabin.

When Tremind Your Excellency that the British Government, although contributing nothing to the endowment, have the nomination to the Bishopric of Victoria; and that the arrival of a bishop has brought also into this Colony two English clergymen for the work of

sducation, and a third also as

chaplain to our seamen prequenting the port, with a floating church raised at the expense of several hundred pounds to which the local Government has contributed nothing, it is to be hoped that the British Government wile not for a moment think that they purchase too dearly the presence of an English